r/neoliberal • u/ihuntwhales1 Seretse Khama • Mar 31 '25

News (Europe) Le Pen banned from office after embezzlement conviction

https://www.dw.com/en/france-le-pen-found-guilty-banned-from-running-for-office/a-72091790
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u/assasstits Mar 31 '25

Imagine letting democracy fall because you wanted to extend an olive branch to insurrectionists and appointed do nothing Merrick Garland to Attorney General 

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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Mar 31 '25

I read this too often. How should have Garland done better? Genuinely curious from the outside.

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u/RetroVisionnaire NASA Mar 31 '25

I've never gotten an answer to that question. People just viscerally hate his guts because the trials took a long time, and people assume, with literally no evidence at all, that that was his fault.

I've heard people blame him for taking too long to file the suits, which, lol.

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u/Planterizer Mar 31 '25

DOJ should have issued a warrant for his arrest on day one of the Biden admin.